Fine cuts, sharp edges, empty spaces, play with light falling through deliberately placed cuts. The knife injures the paper and shapes it at the same time. It symbolises life, which shapes us into the people we are through injury, separation and incision.
This year, the four scholarship holders of Paper Residency! have dedicated themselves to the paper cut technique – sometimes with the knife, sometimes with fire – and hence gave the name to the autumn/winter exhibition at Haus des Papiers Berlin: CUT.
On 02.11.2023, the Haus des Papiers will celebrate the opening of the exhibition CUT at 6 pm.
Among others, the exhibition will show the works of this year’s Paper Residency! fellows Annabel Daou, Haleh Redjaian, Nadine Fecht and Serena Alma Ferrario as well as the work from the 2022 summer residency by Rachel de Joode. Admission on this evening is free of charge.
The exhibition runs from 03 November 2023 to June 2024 and can be visited at Haus des Papiers from 10am to 5pm, Fridays to Sundays. Seydelstraße 30 / corner Elisabeth-Mara-Straße, 10117 Berlin
Annabel Daou layers, tears and cuts until the paper throws itself at us in the form of words and speaks to us. The breaking up of the material is also of decisive importance in Nadine Fecht ‘s work. Instead of a knife, she uses fire and embers, which expose as a burnt line in a graphic gesture layer after layer of paper or even more radically open it up creating burn holes. Haleh Redjaian symbolically unties the knots of the traditionally woven carpets from her childhood in order to reweave them in hand-cut strips of paper. Contrasting with this symmetrical ornamentation is the work of Serena Alma Ferrario, whose organic cuts in paper breathe life into her drawn figures and tell pictorial stories in the space. The new exhibition also brings together positions in paper by Finja Sander, Johanna Dumet and Solveig Gubser each selected for a Wild Card.
Sponsored by d’mage, Hahnemühle and Canon Germany, the Paper Residency! material and studio scholarship has been in existence since 2018, offering artists the opportunity to work intensively with paper once a year in Berlin and Munich. Some of the works created here become part of the museum’s collection. The works from this year’s residencies are for the first time being shown to the public.
